The glare showed a series of stone steps, which ended in a
low-lying heavy iron door fixed against the side of the house.
It was too far to see any details; it seemed to me then simply a
low-lying patch of dim blue in the uncertain blue-grey sea.
Thence she started on foot, basket in hand, to reach the wide upland of heath dividing this district from the
low-lying meads of a further valley in which the dairy stood that was the aim and end of her day's pilgrimage.
The adjacent
low-lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain.
The ship had run upon a
low-lying bar that splits the channel about a quarter of a mile from the sea.
Then there were storms and risings of the water over great areas of the
low-lying lands; and there were periods of hunger and misery when we were kept prisoners in the trees for days and days by these transient floods.
The same waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and
low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.
A flying gleam of sunset broke through a
low-lying western cloud and fell across her hair.
Her bulwarks were gone fore and aft, and one saw her bare deck
low-lying like a raft and swept clean of boats, spars, houses - of everything except the ringbolts and the heads of the pumps.
The first faint evidence of dawn was paling the stars ahead of him when the dim outlines of a
low-lying black mass loomed up directly in his track.
He then unfurled a little ensign which denoted that his craft bore a member of the royal family of Zodanga, and together we made our way through the maze of
low-lying air vessels until we hung directly over the jeddak of Zodanga and his staff.
As the friends topped each rise which leads up to the Crystal Palace, they could see the dun clouds of London stretching along the northern sky-line, with spire or dome breaking through the
low-lying haze.